Structured: Cloud Backup End-to-end data protection solutions From the data center to endpoint devices
Your corporate data might be at risk Do your employees use their smart phones, tablets, or personal computing devices for work in addition to their PC at the workplace? Do you have a traveling workforce which needs to access and edit corporate data while on the move? Does your corporate IT environment have laptops, smart phones, or tablet PCs? Do you have a bring your own device policy? Is more than 10% of your workforce less than 30 years of age? If you answered yes to even one of these questions, and do not yet have a policy for backing up data on mobile endpoint devices such as desktops, laptops, smart phones or tablet PCs, your corporate intellectual property assets may be at risk. This risk can expose you to a potential loss of competitive advantage, reputational loss, regulatory non-compliance, or worse, litigation. To understand how you can protect yourself from these challenges, using an endpoint cloud backup and recovery cloud backup solution powered by Structured and Asigra...
Introduction Technology is a much bigger part of our lives than ever before. We are always connected. Our digital work lives and our digital personal lives have collided and often the same devices are used for accessing both work applications and personal social networks. This means your corporate data is now residing on personal devices. This is a world in which we demand access to our data and applications wherever we are and at all times during the day. And this is just the beginning. The convergence of creation, consumption, and distribution of personal and professional information has been redefining the modern workplace. This process has been hastened by advances in endpoint device technology related to the development of intellectual property is no longer protected within its physical Companies face enormous risks due to the fact that corporate information now is edited and maintained on end user devices outside the data center. A data breach or loss can lead to disastrous circumstances from lost competitive advantage to reputational loss and the costs of litigation, compliance, and remediation. offices and corporate data centers company IP now resides on end user devices that are in and out of the workplace. This exposes companies to enormous risks resulting from the loss of a device, to security being compromised due to viruses and malicious hardware. devices that are intuitive, powerful, interactive, and mobile. From smart phones to tablets to netbooks, all the way to laptops these powerful devices have provided the changing workplace with the momentum and the ammunition to break through organizational inertia, hierarchies, and rigid policies to make workplaces flat, democratic, and collaborative. The adoption of these trends has pervaded across organizational levels, departments, and business functions. End users now want to have a single device for their work and personal use and want to have the power to choose those devices themselves. IT service providers are being challenged as the new work force demands immense flexibility in work hours, data access, device profiles, hardware and software platforms, and applications. An important outcome of these changes is the fact that their Yet, companies have been paying very little importance to the backup of sensitive organizational data and intellectual property that resides on their environments that include such endpoint devices. In fact, many companies place the onus of backing up their mobile devices on the end user. Corporate data therefore finds itself backed up on USB drives and detachable hard disks. This further broadens the risk of data breaches. Structured cloud backup services powered by Asigra provides end-to-end data protection with a single enterprise platform. With the aim of helping companies protect their intellectual property that is spread over these disparate devices, as well as successfully achieve their compliance obligations, Strctured s cloud backup service offers a single enterprise platform that provides endpoint device data protection. By deploying Structured cloud backup services for desktops, laptops, smart phones and tablets you can ensure that all your corporate
information from across your data center, LAN, and endpoint devices can be safely backed up and restored in the unfortunate event of a data loss. In recognition of the diversity of such an environment and with the desire to offer a solution to the complete data protection needs of organizations, cloud backup services come in different flavors: FULL FEATURED offers data protection to the entire IT environment from the LAN to the endpoint device, unifying the data protection infrastructure into a single offline shared storage MOBILE a data protection solution offering end-toend data protection to small businesses looking to backup all user devices in their environment from desktops and laptops to tablets and smart phones CONSUMER tailored to the needs of a small office/ home office, this solution offers a bundled data protection solution protecting desktops, smart phones and tablet devices The Structured cloud backup solution can also capture information from devices running different software platforms from Windows, Mac, and Linux to Android, and ios. This also includes other key advantages that provide you with additional business benefits such as agentless and therefore easy to run and maintain, incremental only data backups, data compression techniques such as common file elimination and data deduplication, in flight and at rest security assurance through AES 256-bit encryption and NIST FIPS 140-2 certified cryptography, and restore and recovery assurance through autonomic healing and validation restore. Once we install and configure the software on the endpoint device, the software runs in the background requiring little or no user intervention as the software backs up the information on the endpoint device. Even during restore scenarios, the service platform requires little user intervention as files and folders can be restored by our administrators and IT staff. We understand your operational challenges We are cognizant of the challenges that you face in implementing a centralized backup policy for your organization. We recognize the fact that deploying a backup strategy for endpoint devices, in particular, can be a challenging task. A number of these devices may not have access to the network at all times. Therefore, unlike desktop PCs which can be backed up at specific times in a day or on specific times in a week / month, scheduled backup jobs on mobile devices may not work as planned as some of these devices may not have access to the network at those times. Further, end users may power down laptops and tablet PCs when they are not in use resulting in scheduled backup jobs not being able to complete or even get kicked off. Endpoint device data protection challenges: No single solution that backs up both LAN and endpoints Endpoint device backups don t happen as devices are powered down or out of network coverage area Users complain of performance degradation due to backup jobs Backups hog bandwidth Needs too much end user input, but too complex for them to use
Structured Cloud backup services are designed to overcome these challenges Structured s cloud backup solution has been designed to overcome a number of these challenges. The simple and intuitive user interface ensures that backup and recovery jobs can be initiated by end users themselves. As mentioned earlier, Structured s cloud backup solution powered by Asigra can also be configured to run in the background with little or no user intervention. Further, Structured s cloud backup solution is agentless which enables auto-upgrade capabilities enabling us to seamlessly push software updates from the backend without needing the end user to intervene in the process. Structured s cloud backup solution is designed to limit the drain on CPU, battery, and bandwidth ensuring that your end users do not face much degradation in system performance. By utilizing the powerful bandwidth and CPU throttling capabilities of our cloud backup solution, we can ensure that your employees can continue to use their devices and the corporate network while the backup jobs proceed in the background. Given that we only perform incremental backups of information that has changed, the volume of data to be backed up is severely reduced. This ensures that backup windows are kept to a minimum. The intelligent data compression and deduplication capability of our solution also reduces the bandwidth required for transferring the data over the network. We can automate the backup process by scheduling the backup for specific times of the day or particular times in the month. If the device is turned off at the time that the backup is scheduled, our solution ensures that the backup job begins once the device is turned on. In the event of not finding a connection to a network to back up the data, our cloud backup solution waits for the next scheduled backup job before attempting to back up the information. The cloud backup software provides our administrator with a status of all the backup jobs that have not completed and provides him with notifications on users who have not backed up in time. Finally, and most importantly, our solution integrates with your existing standardized IT infrastructure and offers a simple and secure method to backup corporate data to your authorized cloud data center. The cloud backup software, though robust and secure, is designed to be inherently flexible in supporting multiple cloud deployment models public, private or hybrid.